yum remove cyrus-imap

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Wed Dec 8 03:29:08 UTC 2004


David Mackintosh wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:39:06PM -0800, John Wendel wrote:
> 
>>I recently tried to "yum remove cyrus-imap\*", the result wasn't pretty. 
>>The resulting dependency tree would have left me with an unusable 
>>system. Is there a correct way to do this?
> 
> 
> Can't you just do something like
> 
> # rpm -e cyrus-imapd cyrus-imapd-murder [...]
> 
> ?  What depends on cyrus imapd?
> 
> 

Thanks for the reply. You're correct, rpm -e works fine with cyrus-imapd.

The actual problem I had was with "cyrus-sasl" not "cyrus_imap" (brain 
failure). Looks like cyrus-sasl is required by everything. I guess I'll 
just leave it alone.

Regards,

John




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